Re: [gentoo-dev] [patch] preconfig to allow user configuration before compilation

2005-07-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 15 July 2005 12:55, Kristian Benoit wrote: This patch provide a new feature (preconfig). With this feature on, emerging an ebuild with an optional src_preconfig function will unpack, preconfig, compile, ... on emerge. But with preconfig off, it would do as usual and bypass the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [patch] preconfig to allow user configuration before compilation

2005-07-15 Thread Kristian Benoit
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 20:13 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: By the way, you seemed to attach a unified diff between your modified portage and an empty directory. Please don't do the same for busybox. Sending a 1.4MB patch to a public mailing list is not very nice - especially not in one go. I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] [patch] preconfig to allow user configuration before compilation

2005-07-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 15 July 2005 09:02 am, Kristian Benoit wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 20:13 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: By the way, you seemed to attach a unified diff between your modified portage and an empty directory. Please don't do the same for busybox. Sending a 1.4MB patch to a public

[gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-15 Thread Herbert Fischer
Hi, I'm new to this list and I really don't know if this is the right place to post this message. I already posted something about this on the gentoo forums and I don't know too if the correct persons are seeing that, so I decided to post here. Sorry for the double posting, so I'll be straight on

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 15 July 2005 05:59 pm, Herbert Fischer wrote: In Slackware I had /etc/profile.d/ as a place to customize all my shell environment, including aliases, prompt, etc, without touching original Slackware's files. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4854 -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-15 Thread Herbert Fischer
thanks! I did not look at bugs.gentoo.org because I did not thought that things like this could be placed there, as I consider a suggestion, not a bug. On 7/15/05, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 July 2005 05:59 pm, Herbert Fischer wrote: In Slackware I had /etc/profile.d/

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 15 July 2005 06:36 pm, Herbert Fischer wrote: thanks! I did not look at bugs.gentoo.org because I did not thought that things like this could be placed there, as I consider a suggestion, not a bug. we use bugzilla for all bugs / enhancements pretty much -mike --

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-15 Thread Herbert Fischer
Thanks... I saw that bug and saw that it is very old (from 2002) and nothing was done. Did you know why? On 7/15/05, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 July 2005 06:36 pm, Herbert Fischer wrote: thanks! I did not look at bugs.gentoo.org because I did not thought that things

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 15 July 2005 06:56 pm, Herbert Fischer wrote: Thanks... I saw that bug and saw that it is very old (from 2002) and nothing was done. Did you know why? hmm, us baselayout guys have discussed it before, but i guess we've never posted to the bug the only thing we really have against it

Re: [gentoo-dev] devfs is dead, let's move on

2005-07-15 Thread Carlos Silva
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:46 -0700, Greg KH wrote: Ok, now that devfs is removed from the 2.6 kernel tree[1], I think it's time to start to revisit some of the /dev naming rules that we currently are living with[2]. To start with, the 061 version of udev offers a big memory savings if you

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-15 Thread Herbert Fischer
can you control this ?? or... maybe could be a place most likely env.d that we could place aliases, shell functions and customize prompt with a closed objective approach If I develop something safe there is some possibility to this being put it on the main gentoo baselayout project ? If so, I'll

[gentoo-dev] [G/FBSD] /usr/lib/charset.alias

2005-07-15 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Hi, Just another issue that it's easily handled anyway. On Gentoo/FreeBSD and probably every other system using dev-util/libiconv instead of the glibc-provided one creates the /usr/lib/charset.alias file. Unfortunately this gets conflict over different packages. The good way to handle this is

Re: [gentoo-dev] [G/FBSD] /usr/lib/charset.alias

2005-07-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 15 July 2005 08:33 pm, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Gentoo/FreeBSD and probably every other system using dev-util/libiconv instead of the glibc-provided one creates the /usr/lib/charset.alias file. Unfortunately this gets conflict over different packages. i thought the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [G/FBSD] /usr/lib/charset.alias

2005-07-15 Thread Kito
On Jul 15, 2005, at 7:45 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Friday 15 July 2005 08:33 pm, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Gentoo/FreeBSD and probably every other system using dev-util/ libiconv instead of the glibc-provided one creates the /usr/lib/ charset.alias file. Unfortunately this

Re: [gentoo-dev] [G/FBSD] /usr/lib/charset.alias

2005-07-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 15 July 2005 09:15 pm, Kito wrote: On Jul 15, 2005, at 7:45 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: regardless, i think this should be done on a global scale rather than per-package ... why not add some bashrc-foo to your profile ? Globally would definitely be better IMO. But how would bash-fu

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-15 Thread Michael Marineau
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Friday 15 July 2005 06:56 pm, Herbert Fischer wrote: Thanks... I saw that bug and saw that it is very old (from 2002) and nothing was done. Did you know why? hmm, us baselayout guys have discussed it before, but i guess we've never posted to the bug the only

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 15 July 2005 09:25 pm, Michael Marineau wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On Friday 15 July 2005 06:56 pm, Herbert Fischer wrote: Thanks... I saw that bug and saw that it is very old (from 2002) and nothing was done. Did you know why? hmm, us baselayout guys have discussed it before,

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-15 Thread Michael Marineau
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Friday 15 July 2005 09:25 pm, Michael Marineau wrote: Does the risk of abuse outweigh the potential usefulness that much? My vote would be to do more of this sort of thing. Reducing the oppertunity for users to shoot themselves in the foot would be good. err i

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 15 July 2005 09:56 pm, Michael Marineau wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On Friday 15 July 2005 09:25 pm, Michael Marineau wrote: Does the risk of abuse outweigh the potential usefulness that much? My vote would be to do more of this sort of thing. Reducing the oppertunity for users

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-15 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 18:56 -0700, Michael Marineau wrote: I just ment that by providing profile.d (and similar things) would let users customize their profile without having to edit a gentoo installed file, making upgrades a bit easier. To prevent abuse perhaps portage could enforce a

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-15 Thread Petteri Räty
Herbert Fischer wrote: In Gentoo we need to hack files that sometimes are changed in some emerge world updates, like /etc/profile, /etc/skel/.bashrc, and that is a little mess to me, as when etc-update's list is too long I place a -5 (auto update) and voilá... all my customizations are gone.